Lars Aronsson wrote:
Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
There are dictionnaries for aspell for 76
different languages, and of
course more can be added; look at:
http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Supported.html
But not all Aspell dictionaries are free. This is an area where
Wiktionary and the Wikimedia Foundation could make a difference.
For example, download the English dictionaries in
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/en/aspell6-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2
and read the enclosed text file named "Copyright".
Well Lars, we are not so far away from making a different point in that.
It is one of the usages we have in mind with Ultimate Wiktionary. Since
there we will have words in all languages and have these words in a
relational database it is easy to "extract an actual spellchecker" every
now and then. Being Ultimate Wiktionary data under GFDL also the spell
checker is under GFDL. We are also thinking about a feedback mechanism
that allows for updates and corrections. This means that for example who
uses our spell checker in OmegaT or OOo or wherever gives us back the
additional and/or corrected data and this can than be integrated. Also
every manual edit on UW will contribute to increase the validity of
spell checkers. We will for sure have over 200 languages and many
millions of words (of course in these several languages). Therefore we
will have also "start-up-spellcheckers" (in languages where there are no
other spellcheckers) where people can work on online and offline and
working on them (for example in any African language offline, where
people have no stable internet connection) they also automatically
contribute to UW.
Really this would need much more "digging deeper" - but I presume that
even with these few lines you can imagine what it would mean to have
spellcheckers in over 200 languages in gfdl.
Ciao, Sabine
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